| By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | In his first weeks in office, President Trump has adopted an aggressive stance toward one of the nation's closest allies: Canada. For example, he announced and then paused stiff tariffs on Canadian goods, before posting online that he would like to annex the country and turn it into the 51st state. As Lawrence B.A. Hatter writes for Made by History, the idea that Canada secretly craves belonging to the United States predates the country's independence. In the founding era, the states sought to absorb Canada—resulting in some of the early nation's most humiliating foreign policy blunders. Nor was that the last time America tried to grab its northern neighbor. As Marc-William Palen writes, threatening tariffs and seeking to annex Canada are both moves that have a deep history within GOP strategy, stretching back to the 19th century. But this pressure didn't work back then, as Canada responded by deepening its ties with Britain and undermining U.S.-Canada trade. For his part, outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been clear that there isn't "a snowball's chance in hell" that Canada will become the 51st U.S. state. | |
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| | | |  | Trump Faces Long Odds in Brokering Middle East Peace | More than 75 years of efforts to broker a two-state solution have failed—and the odds of success have only grown longer. |
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|  | The Troubling Slavery-Era Origins of Inmate Firefighting | The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight blazes. |
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|  | History Exposes the Flaw in RFK Jr.'s Drug Treatment Plan | Kennedy wants to create "wellness drug rehabilitation farms." But the U.S. tried it before, and it didn't work. |
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|  | The Origins of the Anti-Vaccination Movement | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s nomination to lead HHS reflects the rising power of an anti-vaccination movement more than 100 years in the making. |
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|  | The L.A. Fires Expose the Problem With Conservation Policy | For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources. |
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|  | What's in Remaining JFK, MLK, RFK Assassination Files | What experts on John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr and Bobby Kennedy assassinations hope to learn from files expected to be declassified |
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| | This week in 1969: Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow |  | The Feb. 7, 1969, cover of TIME |
| Philippe Halsman |
| "But each year brings more originals, more actresses like Mia Farrow, who asks: 'What does it mean to be a star today? The only real value it has is in being offered more and better parts.' And Dustin Hoffman, who says, 'I've always had this fantasy every actor has, I guess that when I made it, I'd be able to do whatever I wanted.' Up in the Hollywood hills, the superstars may grumble at the youngsters who have turned their backs on the old values. But not so long ago, young audiences rebelled against the old ways by staying away from movie theaters. The new anti-stars might just be the prescription for the problem of the anti-audience." |
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| | This week in 1995: O.J. Simpson |  | The Feb. 6, 1995, cover of TIME |
| Steve Starr |
| "'To: O.J. Simpson You scumbag and coward. You should have shot yourself in the Bronco–Coward!' Responding to this letter, written by a self-described 'average middle-aged housewife,' Simpson wrote, 'I want to state unequivocally that I did not commit these horrible crimes.' He added, in a book published last Friday, that he would have jumped in front of a bullet for his dead ex-wife Nicole–or a train, for that matter. The thin volume, the issue of a fat-figured deal ($1 million), is a brilliant sliver of disingenuousness called I Want to Tell You and subtitled My Response to Your Letters, Your Messages, Your Questions."" |
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| This week in 2013: Kathryn Bigelow |  | The Feb. 4, 2013, cover of TIME |
| Paola Kudacki for TIME |
| "The movie that resulted, Zero Dark Thirty, which was No. 1 at the U.S. box office in its first week of nationwide release and has been nominated for five Oscars, is in many ways as dispassionate a procedural as The Hurt Locker. Yet it has become the most politically divisive motion picture in memory. Not only does it stage brutal scenes of American operatives practicing torture at CIA black sites in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, but in the eyes of many experts, it also forges false connections between information gleaned by torture and the eventual discovery of bin Laden's hideout… 'Once you've opened the window on topical material, it's very hard to close it,' she says. 'Holding up a contemporary mirror is more attractive to me now than ever.'" |
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